What Is Your Favorite Animated Movie Of All Time?

What is your favorite animated movie of all time? We want to know! This question is the ultimate question that needs an answer. For many it is hard to choose because their are so many great animated movies that have been produced throughout the years. But if you had to choose just one, and only one, which would it be?

The Author

Lavalle Lee

Lavalle has been making animated online cartoons since 2001 for his website flashcartoons.org. In 2009 Lavalle started learning from Don Bluth in his hand-drawn animation classes, as well as attending his Masterclasses in Arizona. In 2011 he started this website after seeing most animation sites were about all types of animation, not any specific to classical hand drawn animation. Lavalle also is the host of the popular online series. "The Traditional Animation Show". Lavalle is currently working for Don Bluth Films as a Production Manager and helped champion Dragon's Lair: The Movie Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign.

My favorite animated movie is the Prince of Egypt. It sets the bar so high, no film can compete. My number 2 to number 5 picks are: Tangled, Beauty and the Beast, Secret of Nimh, and The Peanuts movie.

Most of Hayao Miyazaki’s movies, with preference for ‘Laputa’, ‘Mononoke Hime’ and ‘Spirited Away’. For Disney movies, I think ‘Fantasia’, though I love the art of ‘Snow White’. ‘Persepolis’, ‘Only Yesterday’ and ‘The Lego Movie’ as well.

My favourite animated movie of all time is The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Stellar artistry and animation, awesome soundtrack, complex villain, loveable protagonists and such themes as heartbreak, love vs lust and racial discrimination.
I highly praise the creators for producing perhaps the most Gothic and criminally underrated Disney film.

For me , its The Secret of Nimh.
Not only its beautifull , with drama , humor , adventure and magic , and Deaths..
but its had too the hope that other studios , not only Disney , could bring us excellent animations.

It really is hard to chose. There are so many great animated films out there. The Iron Giant, Cats Don’t Dance, The Incredibles, Ghibli films… So many. But a favorite that really stands out in my mind would have to be the Japanese animated film, Redline. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2H_FsmxWzc

“Princess Mononoke” and “Spirited Away”, undoubtly. If I would choose non-Ghibli films, I like so much “Persepolis”, “Perfect Blue”, “The Secret Of Kells”, “Hedgehog In The Fog”, “Wrinkles” and “The Secret Of NIMH”.

Fantasia, Bambi and Sleeping Beauty I feel represent the peak of traditional animation. Hon. Mention to Snow White and the Seven Dwarves for being the first widely released feature and the reason we can choose an all time favorite.

2 equal favourites- ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ for its visual attention to detail, lovable characters & touching story. ‘Akira’, the first animated film I saw with murders and swearing! Epic filmmaking in every sense.

Well, Beauty and the Beast is my all-time favorite Disney movie, The Lion King is second and Aladdin is third. My all-time favorite animated movie from Don Bluth is An american tail. And my other favorite Non-Disney movie is Once Upon a Forest. For 3D Computer Animation, from Disney my favorite is Frozen. Second place, this year’s smash hit, Zootopia. Third place, Wreck-It Ralph. From DreamWorks Animation, Home, Kung Fu Panda 3 and Madagascar. From Disney Pixar, I always love the Toy Story Trilogy, of course there’s gonna be a fourth one in a couple of years, anyway, I also like Inside Out and Monsters University. What about movies that based off my favorite animated TV Shows? Well, I love all three of The Care Bears Movies and my other favorites are all three of The Rugrats Movies. There’s a lot more that I like, but That’s enough to say right here.

Don Bluth – The Pebble and the Penguin. The last of his great films that was largely analog-produced start to end (storyboard and sketches to cels and film-based rotoscope), before CGI began infiltrating even hand-drawn films. One of the most unfairly-maligned animated works of its time.

1. Fantasia (because art for its own sake is good)
2. Transformers (1986) (Because Nostalgia and a kicking soundtrack)
3. Tokyo Godfathers (because of the surprisingly funny and deep characters)
4. Song of the Sea (because independent animated ventures offer unique stories and perspectives and this is currently the king of that to me)

The Pebble and the Penguin. It deserves a Director’s Cut too, so it can be viewed for what it should have been in its original coloration and with all the original cut scenes Bluth intended it to contain. It represents the amazing results Bluth’s team were able to produce while facing adverse and unexpected budgetary, time, and ideological constraints. I wish it would be shown again on the big screen in 2020 for its 25th Anniversary.

Pinocchio, Fantasia, The Little Mermaid. (I know that the last doesn’t measure up technically to the others, but I just am in love with that film. I wish VERY much that there were a non-Disney film among my top three, but there just isn’t.)

These are just some of my favorites Spirited away,iron giant,Fievel goes west,Fantasia, Beauty and the beast,the little mermaid, toy story 1&2, lady and the tramp, the goofy movie, ect the list goes on!

1998 Walt Disney’s Mulan. It was the first epic movie of an independent woman that I ever saw.
The art is breathtaking, it’s filled with excellent music, comedy, awesome characters. It was also my first time seeing a character defy gender rules. and there’s a depth to it that just moves me. The love between the characters, with Mulan and her family is real. “The greatest gift and honour is having you for a daughter.”